After last weekend’s radio special on TalkSport went so well, I’m taking part in the Eddie Irvine post race show on Sunday at 8pm.

It will just be a short analysis segment from me, but the producers are looking for some fans to take part in the discussion and give their points of view and ask Eddie anything they want about the race.

If you want to take part please let me know in the comments section at the end of this post and we will pick two or three people at random. We’ll email in the morning to get a phone number and then pass that on to the producers who will call when the show is on.

If you miss out, don’t worry, we will be doing this again, probably at the Hungarian GP.

I am a 23 year old political journalist from the Netherlands. I work for Dutch radio. Radio 1 actually. I follow F1 closely from the age of 9 (I know, pretty ridiculous :-)), and inform myself with any information about F1, race-analysis, the political aspect, the technical aspect etc.

Anyway, loved the TALKSport show you did last time, and hope (good for my ego, let’s be honest ;-)) to contribute to the show this time.

I’d like to ask Eddie what his view is on F1 publicity in general, such as the upcoming face-off due between FOTA and FOM and whether he thinks the fans should have a front-row seat, or whether any future deals should be done behind closed-doors?

Alonso was the faster of the two drivers today thus Massa had to drive defensively to hold him off once the change to hards had been made. Between teammates is this ideal? They both want to win but at what cost, we’ve seen what happened at Red Bull when a driver made it hard for his quicker teammate to get by.

Alonso’s tires would have been suffering following in Massa’s wake when he should have been out in clear air. Also it was allowing Vettel to close in on the pair of them.

I understand Alonso’s frustration at having to fight a slower TEAMMATE for position. Ferrari looking at the car data decided that Alonso WAS being held up thus the order.

Unlike the Schumi/Barry fiasco in Austria(?) there was a logical reason to let Alonso by:

A he was faster
B he is ahead in the championship
C he is also been the quicker of the two all year so the thinking at Ferrari is he’s our better bet at taking a championship.

It’s already occurred before in Australia. Alonso was clearly quicker and made a few attempts to get by Massa but Massa put up a fight so he backed off to insure a finish.

Will Ferrari be punished? Should they be punished? I say Felipe earned the win, but Fernando may need the points at the end of the season. Did Ferrari even make an attempt to hide what they were doing? I say they want to see what the FIA will do. Ferrari hope to get away with it and show everyone how important they are to F1. This will be another interesting battle OFF the circuit!

I was £36k out with my guess regarding Ferrari’s punishment (I said £100k). Bargain for Ferrari. I think the problem is weak management at Ferrari i.e. this embarrassment, Alonso’s Drive Through Pen at Silverstone etc. It will come back to bite them when the crunch comes at the end of the season. By the way, I recommend Talksport’s F1 review. Love Eddie Irvine for his honesty and James is one of the very best journos in the business.

BET BERNIE IS RUBBING HIS HANDS TOGETHER JUST MORE AND MORE PUBLICITY FOR F1 DONT THINK THEY NEEDED TO DO IT SO SOON IN THE SEASON AND JUST TO SAY THANKS TO MASSA FOR NEARLY DYING IN ONE OF THEIR CARS THEY COULD HAVE LET HIM HAVE THE WIN EVEN IF ALONSO LOST THE WC BY THEM SEVEN POINTS MAYBE HE SHOULD HAVE GOT HIS FINGER OUT EARLIER IN SEASON AT LEAST SHUEY PUT RUBINO ON THE TOP STEP OF THE PODIUM AS A MARK OF RESPECT